10:58 PM,
Jan. 11, 2013

Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono help deliver boxes of comments Friday to the state Department of Environmental Conservation in Albany. The comments are regarding the DEC's proposed natural-gas drilling regulations.

Written by

Jon Campbell
| Albany Bureau

Opponents of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas submitted what they said were 204,000 formal comments to the state on Friday, as a 30-day response period on New York's proposed shale-gas-drilling rules came to a close.

Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon - the widow and son, respectively, of former Beatle John Lennon - traveled to the state Capitol to mark the occasion, where they spoke to reporters while surrounded by dozens of boxes filled with submissions to the Department of Environmental Conservation.

The last-minute push leaves the Department of Environmental Conservation with an uphill ...